Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Contoocook, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Contoocook who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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